Exploring the wavefront of hard X-ray free-electron laser radiation

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Rutishauser, Simon ^a   Samoylova, Liubov ^b   Krzywinski, Jacek ^c   Bunk, Oliver ^a   Grünert, Jan ^b   Sinn, Harald ^b   Cammarata, Marco ^c   Fritz, David M ^c   David, Christian ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN XFEL GMBH   (Germany)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; INTERFEROMETER; LASER; PHOTON; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; X RAY; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER;

EID: 84864844414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1950     Document Type: Article

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